Probably easiest to start with the R&R today, as it has been quite a strange experience, but I’ll come on to that.
Rest
Relaxation
Evening – note the genuine Indian beer!
I showed the hotel/mansion we’re staying in last night. In this area there are loads of them – not ancient, built in the 20th Century. So this morning was what seemed like a fairly random tour of some of them …..
….. on a bullock cart.
Here’s a selection:
Plus we had to get sucked in to ceramic tile making – actually quite interesting and no shop where you’re forced to buy.
Overall still trying to get to grips with India. The wealth gap between us and many of them is immense. For example it seemed to be a big harvest day where many people were manually threshing the wheat in the middle of the road. Would have made a very interesting photo, but we questioned our motives and so didn’t. Not sure if that makes sense – still trying to understand it ourselves (as we sit in an air-conditioned mansion eating and drinking extremely well).
Anyway, to finish off:
One of the descriptions of the area, although another is that they were indeed wealthy traders, but moved inland after a tsunami.
And we liked this:
